Insurance agents plot to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. This gritty noir is a character study of how one loses ones humanity when faced, day after day, with murder, rape and abuse etc. Dangerous ground 1934 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers. Cool movies sadistic detective robert ryan is sent upstate and joins a manhunt for a local killer through a desolate snowy landscape. Dangerous ground 1934 0501 1934 gb mystery 1h 8m user score. One of his greatest achievements is on dangerous ground 1952, a film noir produced by john houseman and directed by nicholas ray, for which herrmann. On dangerous ground ida lupino robert ryan ward bond 1952 a new york detective robert ryan falls for the blind sister ida lupino of a rural killer sought by a victims father ward bond. An opera manager tries to woo a contractbreaking soprano into performing in buenos aires. Dangerous ground aspires to be a commentary on the new south africa, but the result is a poor action picture set in a world of drugs and guns. Rough city cop jim wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
The film also stars elizabeth hurley as karen, the girlfriend of vusis brother, and ving rhames as crime lord muki. Dangerous ground is a 1997 action crime drama directed by darrell roodt. An odd combination of consciousnessraising and runofthemill action, dangerous ground features ice cube, mostly unbelievably, as a onetime south african native named vusi. Bernard herrmanns alvis for sale fancy owning a bit of film music history. He meets up with his brother ernest, who tells him their other brother stephen couldnt be contacted. A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly. Dangerous ground 1934 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Dangerous ground 1997 full movie download full hd youtube. Ida lupino, robert ryan, ward bond, charles kemper, anthony ross genre. Rapper ice cube plays vusi, a south african exile who returns home after 12 years to visit the grave of his father but is met with the news that his brother, stephen, owes serious money to a drug lord. On dangerous ground is a 1951 film noir directed by nicholas ray and produced by john houseman. On dangerous ground 1951 nicholas ray christian annyas. Gerard schurmann herrmanns friend, britishdutch composer gerard schurmann has died aged 96 on 24th march 2020.
Released 1951, on dangerous ground stars ida lupino, robert ryan, ward bond, charles kemper the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 22 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. Jim brutalizing suspects on the flimsiest of reasons makes his superior send him. Quote quickie thriller most notable for having david lean as its editor. The drama features ida lupino, robert ryan, ward bond, and others. Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, tv series and more.
Watch dangerous ground full movie in hd visit movie 52855 vusi madlazi returns to the south african village he left as a young bo. Genres crime, mystery subgenres crime thriller, detective film run time 68 min. On dangerous ground original theatrical trailer youtube. Directed with intensity by nicholas ray rebel without a cause, they live by night and featuring a haunting score by bernard herrmann psycho, on dangerous ground is a taut, rapidpaced manhunt. Vusi madlazi returns to the south african village he left as a young boy he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life to bury his father. A somewhat schizophrenic film noir, on dangerous ground is a moody tale of two locales and how they and a mysterious blind woman impact a disillusioned and lonely new york cop. Striking, often innovative direction by nicholas ray and sensitive, understated performances from robert ryan and ida lupino distinguish this atmospheric film thats equal parts crime drama, love story, and whodunit. A schoolteacherturnedfarmer fights to save the land and her son. Ice cube and elizabeth hurley in the tale of a south african freedom fighter who returns home after 14 years in exile for his fathers funeral. Lilies of the field is a 1934 british romantic comedy film directed by norman walker and starring winifred shotter, ellis jeffreys, anthony bushell and claude hulbert. With ida lupino, robert ryan, ward bond, charles kemper. On dangerous ground manufactured on demand, full frame. However, audiences in the early 1950s werent prepared for rays plot, which features a sadistic detective trying. There were french and italian adaptations of james m.
On dangerous ground is a film in which i had no idea where the story was headed from moment to moment. Bernard herrmanns career has no shortage of landmarks. That one of those leading men finds salvation convincingly and persuasively through the power of hope and love is a testament to director nicholas rays special skills. Bezzerides based on the novel mad with much heart, by gerald butler. On dangerous ground 1952 is a film noir directed by nicholas ray, based off the book by gerald butler, mad with much heart. On dangerous ground played off quickly and then dropped out of sight before becoming a latenight television staple in the 60s. On dangerous ground by nicholas ray ida lupino, robert. Released by special arrangement with turner classic movies music. Citizen kane, the day the earth stood still, vertigo, psycho, taxi driverplus music for concert, television and radio. On dangerous ground, dvd, manufactured on demand, full frame, amaray case, subtitled, suspensefilm noir, 888574487980. Videos for on dangerous ground turner classic movies. I note the term quota quickie is brought out fairly quickly on this site as a term of insult but thats definitely what this movie feels like as it has no material that stands out or indeed hasnt been seen elsewhere. The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who. Filming was completed by the beginning of september, and editing had begun.
Sheriff carrey ian wolfe and onloan detective wilson robert ryan are interviewing a murder victims family when her father ward bond arrives, leading to a famous chase, in nicholas rays on dangerous ground, 1952. Depending on what you consider rural add ride the pink horse, road house and suddenly. Nicholas ray was never the sort of filmmaker to pull punches, even if it would help him at the box office, so the uncompromising power of his renegade cop picture, on dangerous ground 1952, shouldnt come as much of a surprise. What opens as a gritty tale of an urban copontheedge ultimately enters a delicate, spiritual realm that, as with they live by night, reminded me of no one so much as robert bresson. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing dangerous ground near you. Ida lupino, englishborn american film and television actress, director, and screenwriter who first gained fame through her portrayals of strong, worldlywise characters and went on to become one of the first women to direct films in hollywood. On dangerous ground is a film where i had no idea where the story was headed from moment to moment. With malcolm keen, jack raine, joyce kennedy, martin lewis. Dangerous ground begins with a promising idea and runs away from it as fast as it can. The musical score was composed by bernard herrmann a violenceprone city cop, jim wilson robert ryan, has punched one too many crooks because of his hate for all the lowlifes in the city. With ice cube, elizabeth hurley, thokozani nkosi, ron smerczak. Nick rays direction of actors and camera is uniformly excellent, even if he lost control of the film in the howard hughes pretzel factory of moviemaking. The movie is set in south africa where, we learn, young vusi was forced to flee when he was, after being threatened by the police because of his connection to revolutionaries.
Dangerous ground 1997 thirteen years after his antiapartheid activism forced him to leave south africa, vusi madlazi ice cube returns home for his fathers funeral. Obsession, despair, and hatred permeate the psyches of the leading men in on dangerous ground, creating a gritty, powerful, and unsettling film. Find the monthly tcm movie schedule and programming guide and learn what. The secret of the loch 1934 1h 18min adventure, fantasy, comedy 3 december 1934 uk a batty scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the loch ness monster, but everyone thinks hes crazy. Dangerous je americka filmska drama snimljena 1935.
Dangerous ground is a particularly uninspiring british crime film of the 1930s. Border incident, highway dragnet, the scarf, most of detour, ace in the hole, cry vengeance, the hitchhiker, house by the river, jeopardy, key largo, moonrise, the last half of on dangerous ground, parts of out of the past, the red house, storm fear, the girl in black stockings, woman on the beach. The bluray looks excellent and has been cleaned up significantly. After severely beating several suspects, jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Robert ryan plays jim wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with lowlife urban scum, in nicholas rays moving film noir. Women of glamour is a 1937 american comedy film directed by gordon wiles and starring virginia bruce, melvyn douglas and reginald denny.
On dangerous ground is one of the best ever film noirs. Rousing biography of the bandit chief who led the battle for mexican independence. Media in category on dangerous ground 1952 film this category contains only the following file. Madeleine stowe intro on dangerous ground 1952 on dangerous ground movie clip no fancy trial airing. Vusi came to america at age 14 to escape police repression, and eventually reinvented himself as an american scholar and communityoriented volunteer. A burnedout city cop is sent on a pursuit assignment in farm country. The film was a quota quickie, produced by paramount s british subsidiary at elstree studios in hertfordshire. But while searching with the victims embittered father ward bond, he finds hope in a remote. Now 12 years have passed, there is a new south africa under nelson mandela, and vusi has returned from the united states to.
Dangerous ground is a 1934 british mystery film directed by norman walker and starring malcolm keen, jack raine and joyce kennedy. It was filmed mostly in the vicinity of moab, utah. On dangerous ground 1951, directed by nicholas ray film. On dangerous ground 1951 on dangerous ground 1951 opening credits typography the end trailer typography. Lilies of the field 1934 film jump to navigation jump to search. Choke canyon titled on dangerous ground outside the united states is a 1986 movie starring stephen collins as a cowboy scientist trying to develop an alternative energy source.
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